The War of 1812-13-14 Between Great Britain and the United States. a Lecture Delivered at the Montreal Military Institute and Before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal in February 1899
The War of 1812-13-14 Between Great Britain and the United States. a Lecture Delivered at the Montreal Military Institute and Before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal in February 1899
Excerpt from The War of 1812 13 14: Between Great Britain and the United States; A Lecture Delivered at the Montreal Military Institute and Before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal in February 1899 Cluded British ships from all American ports. This had a most injurious effect on American trade, es pecially in New England. A year later this embargo was exchanged for an act of non-intercourse with France and England only. They had no means of enforcing this, so it was withdrawn but they main tained a ...
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Excerpt from The War of 1812 13 14: Between Great Britain and the United States; A Lecture Delivered at the Montreal Military Institute and Before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal in February 1899 Cluded British ships from all American ports. This had a most injurious effect on American trade, es pecially in New England. A year later this embargo was exchanged for an act of non-intercourse with France and England only. They had no means of enforcing this, so it was withdrawn but they main tained a standing offer that if either power would repeal its edicts, it would suspend commerce with the other. Napoleon seeing his opportunity to check mate Britain accepted the offer. In February 1811 the United States declared all intercourse with Great Britain and her dependencies at an end. In May 1811 theu. S. Frigate provoked an encounter with the British Sloop Little 'belt', and shot her to pieces. The American Captain was tried by Court Martial and acquitted amid national exultation, Great Britain accepting the official declaration disavowing hostile intention. In November 1811 the President ap pealed to the nation for the sinews of war.' A large class of the American people, were full of sanguine' h0pe of an easy conquest of Canada. It was pre sumed that political troubles and grievances, connect ed with the Imperial executive, had so far under mined Canadian loyalty, that the Colonists would interpose, slight resistance to an American invasion. It was known that Bonaparte was desirous of wresting from Britain the New France of the early French Colo nists. It was at this time believed that Napoleon would become sole master of Europe, and that the United States by joining hands with him, would divide with him the empire of the world. Britain, then almost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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